Decius wrote:
Ultimately, I'd agree that if you were the operator of a fake bomb squad with a bunch of card board cutouts that were supposed to look like vehicles and police officers, and you were operating this fake bomb squad in a small town in Kansas, and you went on television and said "Look at how stupid Boston's bomb squad is! Here in Bumfuck, Kansas we don't have a problem with bombs. Our bomb squad is totally awesome!" you'd be an obnoxious jerk. Thats not the same thing as saying Boston's bomb squad is beyond criticism. Its just that you'd have no right to be the person doing that criticism.

In terms of how great the security is I agree. But in terms of how the UI should work I think the endless barrage of interrupting dialog windows is worth criticizing. Little Snitch for mac works in a similar way, but it's not as tetchy. Security is important, but when the attitude is, "WELL FINE! Here's your damn security!!!" and you lock down everything that can be locked down to make the computer a bureaucratic mess I think the level of protection doesn't match the level of threat. For many contexts, it will be overkill and obnoxious.

Apple bragging about its lack of security attacks is more arrogant than obnoxious. "Mac Os X... Security through Market Position!" Mac's best security feature is the lack of yield for cyber criminals for the amount of work involved. It's certainly security made from invisible thread, but it's apparently still more effective than real logical security. For Mac to raise the bar to the Vista level of intrusiveness, it would be more an instance of paranoia than security because no one is really after Mac yet(yet being key). Someone will be hurt by this eventually. More people might be hurt by the failures of Vista's well thought out architected security in the mean time. Therefore even though Mac has less security it has drastically less risk which provides security through irony.

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